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...Latin] genius, [which means] the guardian and guiding spirit that each person is given as his own at birth, and to whose inspiration … original ideas are due’ (Kant, 1987, p. 175).) He was also named after the archangel Michael because both he and, by implication, anachronistically, his artworks were considered divine. Even in death the best artists were like the...

...Latin, one Greek, possibly companions of Cyriacus. Kritovoulos of Imbros, writing in 1467, cited in Brotton, 2002, p.196. See also Raby, 1982a. Vespasiano da Bisticci, 1963, p.99. Roper, 1962, p.202. The possible connection between representations of Henry VIII and Italian princes is made by Greenblatt, 1980, p.261, n.18. In this connection, it is interesting to note that...

...Latin word ‘intention’, which literally means a tension or stretching towards, and is used by the scholastics as a term for the mind's direction upon the objects of thought. The British philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe (b. 1919) has speculated that it was chosen because of an analogy between stretching towards and aiming one's bow at something and aiming one's thought...

...Latin for ‘tail’), which musicians use to designate several kinds of musical endings. The word describes concluding material that is distinct from (or appended to) other sections of the song. In ‘Suspicious Minds’, the coda is the very brief span of music that follows the final verse, namely the ‘Ooh, baby, baby, yeah!’ that brings the song to a close. Most...

...Latin word for Ireland, and ‘Hibernicus’ means ‘of or pertaining to the Irish people’. Although England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales had long shared a monarch, in 1801, for the first time in their history, all four nations of the British Isles were united as one political entity, with one Parliament. Of course the boundaries of the new state, the United Kingdom of...